出版社: Knopf
出版年: 2008-11-11
页数: 176
定价: USD 23.95
装帧: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780307264237
内容简介 · · · · · ·
A powerful tragedy distilled into a jewel of a masterpiece by the Nobel Prize–winning author of Beloved and, almost like a prelude to that story, set two centuries earlier.
In the 1680s the slave trade was still in its infancy. In the Americas, virulent religious and class divisions, prejudice and oppression were rife, providing the fertile soil in which slavery and race hat...
A powerful tragedy distilled into a jewel of a masterpiece by the Nobel Prize–winning author of Beloved and, almost like a prelude to that story, set two centuries earlier.
In the 1680s the slave trade was still in its infancy. In the Americas, virulent religious and class divisions, prejudice and oppression were rife, providing the fertile soil in which slavery and race hatred were planted and took root.
Jacob is an Anglo-Dutch trader and adventurer, with a small holding in the harsh north. Despite his distaste for dealing in “flesh,” he takes a small slave girl in part payment for a bad debt from a plantation owner in Catholic Maryland. This is Florens, “with the hands of a slave and the feet of a Portuguese lady.” Florens looks for love, first from Lina, an older servant woman at her new master’s house, but later from a handsome blacksmith, an African, never enslaved.
There are other voices: Lina, whose tribe was decimated by smallpox; their mistress, Rebekka, herself a victim of religious intolerance back in England; Sorrow, a strange girl who’s spent her early years at sea; and finally the devastating voice of Florens’ mother. These are all men and women inventing themselves in the wilderness.
A Mercy reveals what lies beneath the surface of slavery. But at its heart it is the ambivalent, disturbing story of a mother who casts off her daughter in order to save her, and of a daughter who may never exorcise that abandonment.
Acts of mercy may have unforeseen consequences.
A Mercy的创作者
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托妮·莫里森 作者
作者简介 · · · · · ·
托妮•莫里森(Toni Morrison)
美国著名女作家。1931年生于俄亥俄州,曾在兰登书屋担任高级编辑,后赴普林斯顿大学等校任教。代表作有《最蓝的眼睛》《所罗门之歌》《宠儿》《爵士乐》《爱》《恩惠》等,曾获普利策小说奖、美国书评家协会奖、美国国家图书奖等多项大奖。1993年,荣获诺贝尔文学奖。
在创作手法上,她那简洁明快的手笔具有海明威的风格,且充满诗意,情节的神秘隐暗感又近似南方作家福克纳,当然还明显地受到拉美魔幻现实主义的影响。“她的伟大与创新可与福克纳、加西亚•马尔克斯及伍尔芙相媲美,这就是她理应获得诺贝尔文学奖的原因。”哈佛大学美国黑人研究院院长如是说。
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A Mercy的书评 · · · · · · ( 全部 11 条 )
冬季大海上闪泛的灰白色的光
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妈妈牵着小男孩的手,把佛罗伦斯卖给了老爷。所以她如此渴望认同,会对一点点的温暖非常珍惜和感激。在最初的叙述中,她说:“故事从那双鞋开始。我还是个孩子的时候,始终都无法忍受打赤脚,即使在最热的天,我也总是在乞求一双鞋,谁的鞋都成。……莉娜说我的脚没有用处,面... (展开)“把自我的支配权交给他人是一件邪恶的事”
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1 有用 Serenity 2015-02-11 22:30:34
没太看明白 结尾太突兀了
0 有用 Nondescript 2021-04-23 17:43:01
“To be female in this place is to be an open wound that cannot heal. Even if scars form, the festering is ever below.
0 有用 吃一碗元宵 2020-11-15 13:25:56
文笔慈悲
0 有用 沙漠也不会下雪 2022-03-02 20:01:46
并不是一个完全locate在历史背景的故事(but whatsoever, you know what she wants),莫里森的两本都让我头晕眼花,因为她总是把所有前现代的历史,人类学诗学式的原型统统塞进旋转的视角和叙述里,我完完全全被她带着走,没有余力进行批评和解读。(而且我哪敢说自己理解宗教呢)最后一章节如同忽然揭晓的谜底般震撼眼球,最终在生命面前,一切都好无力。
0 有用 fallingkite 2016-12-06 13:04:35
So so so sad
0 有用 临江小蝌蚪 2023-07-08 18:22:16 辽宁
多重内聚焦的应用典范:以奴隶制萌芽时期的美国为背景,讲述了一个女孩的悲剧,作家站在雅各布、女孩以及母亲的不同位置,反复呈现了“母亲祈求雅各布带走女孩”的场景,三次叙述相互补充,相互冲突,升华了这场悲剧,同时向读者追问:什么是真实?
0 有用 一雨 2022-03-04 11:38:16
莫里森用不断变换的手法将故事叙述得有点迷离又有点飘渺。书开头的“ I promise to lie quietly in the dark”更像是说明比起控诉,故事更注重的是悲惨命运中的温情与感同身受
0 有用 沙漠也不会下雪 2022-03-02 20:01:46
并不是一个完全locate在历史背景的故事(but whatsoever, you know what she wants),莫里森的两本都让我头晕眼花,因为她总是把所有前现代的历史,人类学诗学式的原型统统塞进旋转的视角和叙述里,我完完全全被她带着走,没有余力进行批评和解读。(而且我哪敢说自己理解宗教呢)最后一章节如同忽然揭晓的谜底般震撼眼球,最终在生命面前,一切都好无力。
0 有用 招才猫焖饭 2021-12-02 00:36:35
真的很创伤,也很难读
0 有用 suantianwa 2021-06-17 04:44:26
The female experience shines through 凝聚形悲痛时刻